Stefan L. Brandt is professor of American studies at the University of Graz in Austria. He is author of The Culture of Corporeality: Aesthetic Experience and the Embodiment of America, 1945–1960 and coeditor of Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction; Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City; Making National Bodies: Cultural Identity and the Politics of the Body in (Post-)Revolutionary America; and Transnational American Studies.
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